I was teaching a class on Tuesday using Silva as an example - although technically proficient (and then some) his real skill is his use of "fighting measure". No one I have EVER seen controls distance as well. He seems to time it to within a literal hairs breadth.

Seriously? Right now, the field is in a bit of flux regarding the long-term risks of exogenous testosterone therapy. It used to be felt it would significantly impact prostate cancer risk, and now the belief is that the risks are less than previously thought. The field, however, has seen a lot of changing and conflicting pieces of data in recent years, and what is really needed is a large prospective study.

However, Gezere's implication that testosterone use has no health consequences is BS. It definitely causes hypogonadism in young males, which can lead to the need for TRT later in life. Whether that also has further health consequences is the medical question, and since it's not decided, I generally try and avoid taking something where the long-term consequences are so vague, when possible.

Define "good steroid use." A one week course to help heal an injury? Dicking with natural hormones is generally not a great idea. Even birth control (female hormones) has side effects. It's just that the benefits significantly outweigh the harms by most peoples' calculations.